/u/PotentialSmell's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] A mimic, seeking to improve its hunting ability, starts hiding among humans studying them to the point where it can pull off a perfect human disguise, however it soon finds that life as a human is much better than life as a mimic pretending to be furniture
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[WP] Working as a world renowned therapist you have uncovered far more about secret conspiracies, horrific monsters, barely failed schemes to destroy the world and dark magical cults from your myriad of heroic patients than you could have bargained for, and you might need therapy yourself
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[WP] You swear like half of your class seems to be characters in a below average, cliche plagued, high school romance novel and watching it from the perspective of a normal person just trying to get through school is much more painful than reading it from the outside in a book
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[WP] A centuries old vampire gets really into video games because playing a character who can walk around in the sun is the closest thing they have to experiencing the day again in centuries
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[WP] Occasionally ships in deep space going undergoing faster than light travel just go missing, a tragic but well known and accepted fact. One ship managed to come back however years after disappearance with extremely disturbing reports
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[WP] You are a chef working for a pizza place which is a mafia front, but you don't really care. All you care about is how to make the best goddamn pizza in town, and not even armed gunmen from a rival family can stop that!
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[WP] A demon emerges after centuries of slumber to corrupt the youth of the world to a life of sin and debauchery. Unfortunately for it due to centuries of shifting cultural standards things that seem truly sinful to the demon are nowadays more or less just normal
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[WP] Desperate for a child a couple take to the dark arts to seek the dark blessings of the Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young, but instead of curing their infertility the eldritch god, not quite understanding the subtleties of human speech, gives them an adorable eldritch horror to raise
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[WP] People who achieve great deeds are rewarded with supernatural power beyond the wildest dreams of mortal men, and apparently eating a giant burrito in under half an hour meets the criteria
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[WP] To be frank you and your arch nemesis have long since passed the first name basis barrier, and at this point are closer to best friends than foes, hell you even attended their wedding. This is why it was so utterly horrifying and devastating when you finally won once and for all
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